The Ophelia Paradox: An Inquiry Into the Conduct of Our Lives

ISBN-13: 9781138516540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Mortimer R. Kadish

Opis

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, when Ophelia tells King Claudius, "Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be," she implies more than that we can never know what will happen next, that we have no grounds on which to make significant decisions in the conduct of our lives

Spis treści

Prologue The Ophelia Paradox; 1: The Problem of Conduct; 2: What the Psyche Wants; 3: Predicaments of Self-Justification; 4: The Sociality of Selves; 5: Human Being: Individuality; 6: Self-Models and Individual Selves; 7: The Trial; 8: The Establishment of the Law; 9: The Limits of Decidability; 10: Ethical Principles and the Law of the Self; Epilogue: Back to Ophelia

O autorze

Mortimer R. Kadish